Mumbai: As the world celebrates yoga on the occasion of International Yoga Day, Bollywood celebrities including Anupam Kher, Shilpa Shetty, Malaika Arora, Bipasha Basu among others took to social media to post pictures of themselves practising yoga to inspire fans to engage in the practice.


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Veteran actor Anupam Kher put out a post on Twitter, wherein he shared his picture performing yoga in his home. Along with the post, he shared a picture of a yogi meditating.



Malaika Arora shared a video on Instagram, featuring her speaking about yoga and confessed that for her it is a way of life and she loves doing it. Along with the video, she wrote, "People who know me, they know that everyday is International Yoga Day for me. Not a lot of you know this but yoga helped me through some of the toughest moments of my life - Both personally and professionally. And I`m not talking about just yoga asanas, I`m taking about leading my life in a way that I focus on the positives, be grateful for the life I have, the people I have in my life and work every single day to get better at it. Yoga has taught me all this."


Urging people to practise yoga, Malaika said, "This International Yoga Day, you should not just take up yoga as a workout form but as a lifestyle. As long as you have yourself, your loved ones, you have the power to overcome any obstacle. Today being Sunday, give yourself a little love. Practice yoga, cook for your family, spend the evening in conversations and just dwell in all the positivity. I wish everybody a happy international yoga day! Love, light and happiness, Malaika Arora."



Bipasha Basu wished everyone with this picture:



Filmmaker Madhur Bhandarkar too dedicated an Instagram post on yoga wherein he is seen practising it under the open sky. The filmmaker wrote alongside the post, "Yoga is light, which once lit will never dim. The better your practice, the brighter your flame. #HappyInternationalYogaDay #YogaForAll."


The International Yoga Day was proposed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on September 27, 2014.


It is observed on June 21 every year to spread awareness about the importance and effects of yoga on the health of the people. The word `yoga` is derived from Sanskrit which means to join or to unite.